Kamikaze, cherry blossoms, and nationalisms
Subtitle: the militarization of aesthetics in Japanese history
By: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
Subjects: Kamikaze airplanes; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, Japanese; World War, 1939-1945 -- Education and the war; Kamikaze pilots; College students -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-399) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1; title: Part 1: THE SYMBOLISM OF CHERRY BLOSSOMS IN PRE-MEIJI JAPAN; title: The Field of Meaning, Images, and Aesthetics 27; title: Part 2: THE ROAD TO PRO REGE ET PATRIA MORI:; title: NATURALIZATION OF IMPERIAL NATIONALISM; title: 2 The Emperor's Two Bodies: Sovereignty, Theocracy, and Militarization 61; title: 3 The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms: Cherry Blossoms as the Souls of Fallen Soldiers 102; title: 4 The Militarization of the Masses 125; title: Part 3: THE MAKING OF THE TOKKOTAI PILOTS; title: 5 The Tokkotai Operation 157; title: 6 Five Tokkotai Pilots 186; title: Part 4: NATIONALISMS, PATRIOTISMS, AND THE ROLE OF AESTHETICS IN MECONNAISSANCE; title: 7 State Nationalism and Naturalization Processes 245; title: 8 Patriotism: Global Intellectual Currents as Its Source 261; title: 9 The Crooked Timber of the Cherry 279; title: Summary 299; title: Appendix: List of Readings by Four Pilots 307.